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Worldwide Web Crawls
Worldwide Web Crawls
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634,933
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21.5B
VIEWS
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Wide crawls of the Internet conducted by Internet Archive. Please visit the Wayback Machine to explore archived web sites. Since September 10th, 2010, the Internet Archive has been running Worldwide Web Crawls of the global web, capturing web elements, pages, sites and parts of sites. Each Worldwide Web Crawl was initiated from one or more lists of URLs that are known as "Seed Lists". Descriptions of the Seed Lists associated with each crawl may be provided as part of the metadata for...
Live Web Proxy Crawls
Live Web Proxy Crawls
collection
108,997
ITEMS
12.8B
VIEWS
collection

eye 12.8B

Content crawled via the Wayback Machine Live Proxy mostly by the Save Page Now feature on web.archive.org. Liveweb proxy is a component of Internet Archive’s wayback machine project. The liveweb proxy captures the content of a web page in real time, archives it into a ARC or WARC file and returns the ARC/WARC record back to the wayback machine to process. The recorded ARC/WARC file becomes part of the wayback machine in due course of time.
Survey Crawls
Survey Crawls
collection
100,908
ITEMS
12.9B
VIEWS
collection

eye 12.9B

Survey crawls are run about twice a year, on average, and attempt to capture the content of the front page of every web host ever seen by the Internet Archive since 1996.
Topic: survey crawls
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eye 3B

The seed for Wide00014 was: - Slash pages from every domain on the web: -- a list of domains using Survey crawl seeds -- a list of domains using Wide00012 web graph -- a list of domains using Wide00013 web graph - Top ranked pages (up to a max of 100) from every linked-to domain using the Wide00012 inter-domain navigational link graph -- a ranking of all URLs that have more than one incoming inter-domain link (rank was determined by number of incoming links using Wide00012 inter domain links)...
Wide Crawl Number 17: Started August 3rd, 2018
Wide Crawl Number 17: Started August 3rd, 2018
collection
69,709
ITEMS
2.6B
VIEWS
collection

eye 2.6B

Wide17 was seeded with the "Total Domains" list of 256,796,456 URLs provided by  Domains Index   on June 26th, and crawled with max-hops set to "3" and de-duplication set "on".   
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eye 1.6B

Web wide crawl number 16 The seed list for Wide00016 was made from the join of the top 1 million domains from CISCO and the top 1 million domains from Alexa.
collection

eye 1.8B

Web wide crawl.
collection

eye 2.4B

The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine This crawl was run at a level 1 (URLs including their embeds, plus the URLs of all outbound links including their embeds) The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public.
Survey Crawl Number 8
collection
8,758
ITEMS
1.6B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.6B

GDELT
GDELT
collection
57,657
ITEMS
1.4B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.4B

A daily crawl of more than 200,000 home pages of news sites, including the pages linked from those home pages. Site list provided by The GDELT Project
Topics: GDELT, News
Wide Crawl Number 12 - started March, 14th 2015
Wide Crawl Number 12 - started March, 14th 2015
collection
49,621
ITEMS
1.6B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.6B

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from January 2015.
collection

eye 1.5B

The seeds for this crawl came from: 251 million Domains that had at least one link from a different domain in the Wayback Machine, across all time ~ 300 million Domains that we had in the Wayback, across all time 55,945,067 Domains from https://archive.org/details/wide00016 This crawl was run with a Heritrix setting of "maxHops=0" (URLs including their embeds) The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public.
Wide Crawl started April 2013
Wide Crawl started April 2013
collection
25,035
ITEMS
1.6B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.6B

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from April 2013.
Wide Crawl started June 2014
Wide Crawl started June 2014
collection
45,341
ITEMS
1.5B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.5B

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from June 2014.
collection

eye 1.6B

The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine This crawl was run at a level 1 (URLs including their embeds, plus the URLs of all outbound links including their embeds) The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public.
Wide Crawl Number 13
Wide Crawl Number 13
collection
46,050
ITEMS
1.2B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.2B

Web Wide Crawl Number 13
Wikipedia Outlinks March 2016
Wikipedia Outlinks March 2016
collection
27,594
ITEMS
1.1B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.1B

Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started March, 2016. These files are currently not publicly accessible. Properties of this collection. It has been several years since the last time we did this. For this collection, several things were done: 1. Turned off duplicate detection. This collection will be complete, as there is a good chance we will share the data, and sharing data with pointers to random other collections, is a complex problem. 2. For the first time, did all the different wikis....
Survey Crawl Number 7
Survey Crawl Number 7
collection
6,606
ITEMS
1.1B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.1B

This "Survey" crawl was started on Feb. 24, 2018. This crawl was run with a Heritrix setting of "maxHops=0" (URLs including their embeds) Survey 7 is based on a seed list of 339,249,218 URLs which is all the URLs in the Wayback Machine that we saw a 200 response code from in 2017 based on a query we ran on Feb. 1st, 2018.   The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public.
Wayback Indexes
Wayback Indexes
collection
554
ITEMS
1.3B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1.3B

Wayback indexes. This data is currently not publicly accessible.
collection

eye 1.3B

The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine This crawl was run at a level 1 (URLs including their embeds, plus the URLs of all outbound links including their embeds) The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public.
Wide Crawl started August 2013
Wide Crawl started August 2013
collection
21,932
ITEMS
1B
VIEWS
collection

eye 1B

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from August 2013.
collection

eye 908.7M

The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine This crawl was run at a level 1 (URLs including their embeds, plus the URLs of all outbound links including their embeds) The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public.
Wide Crawl started January 2012
Wide Crawl started January 2012
collection
30,373
ITEMS
897.4M
VIEWS
collection

eye 897.4M

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from January 2012 using HQ software.
Wide Crawl started April 2012
Wide Crawl started April 2012
collection
39,279
ITEMS
785.9M
VIEWS
collection

eye 785.9M

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from April 2012.
Wide Crawl started February 2014
Wide Crawl started February 2014
collection
9,806
ITEMS
678.1M
VIEWS
collection

eye 678.1M

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from February 2014.
collection

eye 782.9M

The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine This crawl was run at a level 1 (URLs including their embeds, plus the URLs of all outbound links including their embeds) The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public.
Wide Crawl started October 2010
Wide Crawl started October 2010
collection
15,839
ITEMS
607M
VIEWS
collection

eye 607M

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from October 2010
International News Crawls
International News Crawls
collection
13,383
ITEMS
329.9M
VIEWS
collection

eye 329.9M

Crawls of International News Sites
Host Screen Captures
Host Screen Captures
collection
17,458
ITEMS
272.5M
VIEWS
collection

eye 272.5M

Screen captures of hosts discovered during wide crawls. This data is currently not publicly accessible.
Wide Crawl Started January 2013
Wide Crawl Started January 2013
collection
15,157
ITEMS
591.1M
VIEWS
collection

eye 591.1M

Wide crawls of the Internet conducted by Internet Archive. Access to content is restricted. Please visit the Wayback Machine to explore archived web sites.
Wide Crawl started October 2011
Wide Crawl started October 2011
collection
12,648
ITEMS
564.3M
VIEWS
collection

eye 564.3M

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from March 2011 using HQ software.
End of Term Web Crawls
End of Term Web Crawls
collection
32,189
ITEMS
167.4M
VIEWS
by IA
collection

eye 167.4M

This collection includes web crawls of the Federal Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government performed at the end of US presidential terms of office.
Topics: web, end of term, US, federal government
Wide Crawl started September 2012
Wide Crawl started September 2012
collection
22,423
ITEMS
585.4M
VIEWS
collection

eye 585.4M

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from September 2012.
.com survey started January 2011
.com survey started January 2011
collection
2,535
ITEMS
608.9M
VIEWS
collection

eye 608.9M

Survey crawl of .com domains started January 2011.
Topic: webcrawl
End Of Term 2020 Web Crawls
End Of Term 2020 Web Crawls
collection
29,135
ITEMS
50.7M
VIEWS
collection

eye 50.7M

collection

eye 458.4M

The seed for this crawl was a list of every host in the Wayback Machine This crawl was run at a level 1 (URLs including their embeds, plus the URLs of all outbound links including their embeds) The WARC files associated with this crawl are not currently available to the general public.
Wide Crawl started March 2011
Wide Crawl started March 2011
collection
8,530
ITEMS
515.8M
VIEWS
collection

eye 515.8M

Web wide crawl with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from March 2011. This uses the new HQ software for distributed crawling by Kenji Nagahashi. What’s in the data set: Crawl start date: 09 March, 2011 Crawl end date: 23 December, 2011 Number of captures: 2,713,676,341 Number of unique URLs: 2,273,840,159 Number of hosts: 29,032,069 The seed list for this crawl was a list of Alexa’s top 1 million web sites, retrieved close to the crawl start date. We used Heritrix (3.1.1-SNAPSHOT)...
Collections News Crawls v3
Collections News Crawls v3
collection
11,241
ITEMS
201.1M
VIEWS
by ximm@archive.org
collection

eye 201.1M

Miscellaneous high-value news sites 
Topics: World news, US news, news
Wikipedia Outlinks February 2012
Wikipedia Outlinks February 2012
collection
2,951
ITEMS
412.8M
VIEWS
collection

eye 412.8M

Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started February, 2012. These files are currently not publicly accessible.
Around The World Crawl
Around The World Crawl
collection
2,150
ITEMS
470.7M
VIEWS
collection

eye 470.7M

Data crawled by Sloan Foundation on behalf of Internet Archive
Survey Crawl Number 9
collection
561
ITEMS
266.9M
VIEWS
collection

eye 266.9M

Youtube Videos
Youtube Videos
collection
802,865
ITEMS
133.9M
VIEWS
collection

eye 133.9M

Captures of pages from YouTube. Currently these are discovered by searching for YouTube links on Twitter.
Topics: YouTube, Twitter, Video
End Of Term 2020 Post Inauguration Crawls
End Of Term 2020 Post Inauguration Crawls
collection
19,102
ITEMS
20.6M
VIEWS
collection

eye 20.6M

collection

eye 38.3M

This collection contains web crawls performed on the US Federal Executive, Legislative & Judicial branches of government in 2020-2021.   Information about this project can be found here: https://end-of-term.github.io/eotarchive/   You can submit URLs to be archived here: https://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/eth2020/add/
Wide Crawl Number 18
Wide Crawl Number 18
collection
7,442
ITEMS
76.3M
VIEWS
collection

eye 76.3M

Hackernews crawl number 0
collection
6,164
ITEMS
205.6M
VIEWS
collection

eye 205.6M

Hacker News Crawl of their links.
Wikipedia Outlinks May 2011
Wikipedia Outlinks May 2011
collection
1,638
ITEMS
205M
VIEWS
collection

eye 205M

Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started May, 2011. These files are currently not publicly accessible.
Shallow Crawls
Shallow Crawls
collection
1,048
ITEMS
198.7M
VIEWS
collection

eye 198.7M

Shallow crawls that collect content 1 level deep including embeds. This data is currently not publicly accessible.
End of Term 2016 Web Crawls
End of Term 2016 Web Crawls
collection
19,083
ITEMS
58.9M
VIEWS
collection

eye 58.9M

This collection contains web crawls performed as part of the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project that aims to preserve the U.S. federal government web presence at each change of administration. Content includes publicly-accessible government websites hosted on .gov, .mil, and relevant non-.gov domains, as well as government social media materials. The web archiving was performed in the Fall and Winter of 2016 and Spring of 2017. For more information, see...
Topics: end of term, federal government, 2016, president, congress, government data
Geocities Closing Crawl
Geocities Closing Crawl
collection
149
ITEMS
120.7M
VIEWS
collection

eye 120.7M

Geocities crawl performed by Internet Archive. This data is currently not publicly accessible. from Wikipedia : Yahoo! GeoCities is a Web hosting service. GeoCities was originally founded by David Bohnett and John Rezner in late 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet (BHI), and by 1999 GeoCities was the third-most visited Web site on the World Wide Web. In its original form, site users selected a "city" in which to place their Web pages. The "cities" were metonymously named after...
Wayback CDX Shards
Wayback CDX Shards
collection
1,214
ITEMS
168.3M
VIEWS
collection

eye 168.3M

CDX Index shards for the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine works by looking for historic URL's based on a query. This is done by searching an index of all the web objects (pages, images, etc) that have been archived over the years. This collection holds the index used for this purpose, which is broken up into 300 pieces so they fit into items more naturally and distribute the lookup load. Each of these 300 pieces is stored in at least 2 items, and then those are also stored on the backup...
Wikipedia Outlinks July 2011
Wikipedia Outlinks July 2011
collection
1,011
ITEMS
142.2M
VIEWS
collection

eye 142.2M

Crawl of outlinks from wikipedia.org started July, 2011. These files are currently not publicly accessible.
Live Web Proxy Crawls
web

eye 45.4M

favorite 0

comment 0

COM Survey Crawl 2009-2010
COM Survey Crawl 2009-2010
collection
729
ITEMS
92.8M
VIEWS
collection

eye 92.8M

COM survey crawl data collected by Internet Archive in 2009-2010. This data is currently not publicly accessible.
Shallow Crawl Started 2013
Shallow Crawl Started 2013
collection
252
ITEMS
80.7M
VIEWS
collection

eye 80.7M

Shallow crawl started 2013 that collects content 1 level deep, including embeds. Access to content is restricted. Please visit the Wayback Machine to explore archived web sites.
Shallow Crawl Started 2013
Shallow Crawl Started 2013
collection
544
ITEMS
80.7M
VIEWS
collection

eye 80.7M

Shallow crawl started 2013 that collects content 1 level deep, including embeds. Access to content is restricted. Please visit the Wayback Machine to explore archived web sites.
End Of Term 2016 Pre-Inauguration Crawls
End Of Term 2016 Pre-Inauguration Crawls
collection
4,693
ITEMS
21.9M
VIEWS
collection

eye 21.9M

This collection contains web crawls performed as the pre-inauguration crawl for part of the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project that aims to preserve the U.S. federal government web presence at each change of administration. Content includes publicly-accessible government websites hosted on .gov, .mil, and relevant non-.gov domains, as well as government social media materials. The web archiving was performed in the Fall and Winter of 2016 to capture websites prior to the January...
Topics: end of term, federal government, 2016, president, congress
survey_net00000
survey_net00000
collection
300
ITEMS
76M
VIEWS
collection

eye 76M

Survey crawl of .net domains started December 2010.
Topic: webcrawl
End of Term 2016 Post-Inauguration Crawls
End of Term 2016 Post-Inauguration Crawls
collection
5,308
ITEMS
11.6M
VIEWS
collection

eye 11.6M

This collection contains web crawls performed as the post-inauguration crawl for part of the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project that aims to preserve the U.S. federal government web presence at each change of administration. Content includes publicly-accessible government websites hosted on .gov, .mil, and relevant non-.gov domains, as well as government social media materials. The web archiving was performed in the Winter of 2016  and Spring of 2017 to capture websites...
Topics: end of term, federal government, 2016, president, congress
Collections news crawls v2
collection
820
ITEMS
47.2M
VIEWS
by ximm@archive.org
collection

eye 47.2M

End of Term 2012 Web Crawls
End of Term 2012 Web Crawls
collection
2,383
ITEMS
39.8M
VIEWS
collection

eye 39.8M

This collection contains web crawls performed on the US Federal Executive, Legislative & Judicial branches of government in 2012-2013.
Topics: end of term, US, Federal government, 2012, Obama
nsdlweb
collection
91
ITEMS
56.4M
VIEWS
collection

eye 56.4M

this data is currently not publicly accessible.
Government Web & Data Archive
Government Web & Data Archive
collection
6,269
ITEMS
20M
VIEWS
collection

eye 20M

This collaborative project is an extension of the 2016  End of Term  project, intended to document the federal government's web presence by archiving government websites and data. As part of this preservation effort, URLs supplied from partner institutions, as well as nominated by the public, will be crawled regularly to provide an on-going view of federal agencies' web and social media presence. Key partners on this effort are the Environmental Data & Governance...
Topics: government, data, federal, congress
International News Crawl started in September 2010
International News Crawl started in September 2010
collection
1,083
ITEMS
44.1M
VIEWS
collection

eye 44.1M

Crawl of International News Sites with initial seedlist and crawler configuration from Sep 1, 2010.
ORG Survey Crawls
ORG Survey Crawls
collection
193
ITEMS
40.1M
VIEWS
collection

eye 40.1M

Survey of .org domains. This data is currently not publicly accessible.
Live Web Proxy Crawls
web

eye 9.1M

favorite 0

comment 0

Edu & Gov Crawl, June 2010
Edu & Gov Crawl, June 2010
collection
704
ITEMS
25.1M
VIEWS
collection

eye 25.1M

TEST COLLECTION: Crawl of .edu and .gov sites started in June 2010.
Topic: crawldata
Internet Archive crawldata from Webwide Crawl, captured by crawl427.us.archive.org:wide from Sun Oct 16 02:25:38 PDT 2016 to Sat Oct 15 21:19:02 PDT 2016.
Topic: crawldata
End Of Term 2016 UNT Crawls
End Of Term 2016 UNT Crawls
collection
1,275
ITEMS
16M
VIEWS
collection

eye 16M

End of Term 2016 Web Archive government web crawls by project partner the University of North Texas.
Topics: end of term, federal government, 2016, president, congress, university of north texas
Live Web Proxy Crawls
web

eye 8.8M

favorite 1

comment 0

End Of Term 2016 Library of Congress Crawls
End Of Term 2016 Library of Congress Crawls
collection
3,892
ITEMS
8.6M
VIEWS
collection

eye 8.6M

End of Term 2016 Web Archive government web crawls by project partner the Library of Congress.
Topics: end of term, federal government, 2016, president, congress, library of congress, web, data
survey_net00001
collection
170
ITEMS
27.1M
VIEWS
collection

eye 27.1M

Survey crawl of .net domains started October 2011.
Topics: webwidecrawl, net
Live Web Proxy Crawls
web

eye 150,590

favorite 0

comment 0

collection

eye 20.4M

End of term 2008 crawl data gathered by Internet Archive on behalf of the California Digital Library. This data is currently not publicly accessible.
YouTube 2007 Crawl
YouTube 2007 Crawl
collection
73,847
ITEMS
23.5M
VIEWS
collection

eye 23.5M

Data crawled from YouTube.com in 2007 by Internet Archive. These files are not currently accessible.